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Hey Tom, You're right that Paizo and Wizards are very different animals. And I think Wizards' long-term prospects are probably better than Paizo's because of their differences. But I think Paizo is the best comparison we can make to Wizards, because it's close in scale to Wizards and they do a...

Where are you getting this information about Wizards' specific concerns that we are supposed to address? Where have Wizards' outlined their point of view? Why do you believe that Wizards' point of view is that the OGL is bad for their business? They presumably thought that going in to 4E...

Those of us who support open licensing don't believe that it gives away a company's main source of income. It doesn't seem to have given away Paizo's main source of income (or the incomes of the several other Pathfinder publishers who volunteer their content to be put on the Pathfinder SRD), or...

Ah, I realise my mistake: I meant Alacoda rather than the Golden Realm. Someone could try to resolve this inconsistency if they wanted to, but I'm also happy to just change my entry to refer to Alacoda. EDIT: PS I really like the idea of warhorses as almost undead, their bones sought out by...

Mules, lions and ostriches—what a great collection of mounts! (And is that a subtle reference to Don Quixote in his name?) The Mage Slaves of Udenyr (more for 00.02.01) The Thunderhead of Skullreach is rightly feared along the Bitter Coast. People talk in hushed tones of the powerful mages...

I don't think it's too out there ... I think it fits pretty well with what we've established about Shuttered, actually. A Sigil where all the portals have closed ... which used to have infinite possibilities and now doesn't, suits the melancholy of the Shrouded Lands, I think. The one thing...

Thanks Hautamaki. They sometimes switch off the XP button during times of high traffic.

It also depends on how flexible the themes are. A paladin who talks to the souls of the dead and summons up the spirits of those who were wronged by evil sounds like a great application of the Necromancer theme! My money's on 5-level themes, with three feats. That seems like a nice point to be...

I've updated the appendices. That's great to hear—I look forward to seeing what your players discover about the caves! Yeah, my idea of the beard-masks is that they're gender-neutral. I'm not sure about the southern dwarves either ... perhaps they have some other way of disguising their...

I agree. The feats are simple, substantial and flavourful. Taking any one of them would be a meaningful change for your character—not a piffling +1 to attack or a +2 to two tenuously-linked skills.

That's a very broad definition of 'Arthurian Chivalric'—and many of the protagonists of the Appendix N books are anti-heroes rather than heroic.

Oh yeah, if 5E reintroduced the Bloodied condition only for healing during a long rest, I'd prefer they just say 'Heal up to 1/2 HP if you're below 1/2 HP, heal to full HP if you're at or above 1/2 HP'. But as a side note, I'd like to see Bloodied reintroduced and then used for a number of...

Another option I like is that a long rest heals you to full hit points, if your current HP is above your Bloodied value. If your HP is below your Bloodied value, you heal up to your Bloodied value.

As soon as the 'magic guy' casts spells in a particular way, he/she ceases to be generic! Vancian, ritual, spontaneous, at-will casting, whatever, they're all non-generic and say a lot about the implied sub-genre of fantasy.

Alignment is so open to interpretation that you could definitely describe Batman as Neutral Good. But he also fits the definition of Lawful Good, at least the one provided in 3.5: it doesn't require obedience to the law of a particular country, but rather discipline, integrity, honour and...

Why not leave each of the paladin motivations unassigned to an alignment? Batman could be a Lawful Good Paladin of Vengeance, for example.

I think it's a great idea. Leave the dedicated warrior of a god niche to the cleric, and let the paladin be a paragon of Lawful Good. The Luke Skywalker of fantasy: a moral champion constantly faced with the temptation to succumb and become an anti-paladin/blackguard. That's a story that's been...

I'd be interested to hear more about this, if you'd like to talk about it. Did the healing using HD after a short rest bother you, or just the maximum healing after a long rest? Did it bother you more than in other editions of D&D you've played.

That's a good point! It would be fun to play a student of natural history in a clearly magical world. 'Natural Lore' is confusing, though—maybe they could call it Natural History and ditch the expectation that all the knowledge skills end with 'Lore'.

I think it's remarkable how all the other characters are about equally popular. That's quite an achievement for Wizards: it looks like the other classes are all engaging.